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Travel Blogs from Changsha

... on the group (What is your favorite colour?, when is your birthday? that sorta thing). Although we were giving a scoring system to follow, the other two judges (both Chinese) chose to ignore it completely and mark everyone between 8 and 10 out of 10. Their reason was that the students need encouragement and should not be marked down. Even though I went along with it I completely disagreed with them, If a child did not perform very well, it would be unfair to give them the same ...

This blog entry was eventful, even before I wrote it. Since Oscar arrived in my life (more on him later on), home life has become very chaotic as you might imagine, looking after a 5 month old kitten who seems to be the human equivalent of myself on a sugar rush. Which is why my plan of writing several short blogs went down the tube. Laura showed me an amazing coffee shop 5 minutes on the bus from where I live which does incredible an mocha (my weakness) so I decided to ...

Celebration time! We've worked hard during the last four weeks, and now it's time to honor our accomplishments.Tonight, our Changsha university is hosting a dinner for all of us - instructor-students, student-instructors, and grad student guides - at an awe-inspiring hotel complex. The architecture is traditional Chinese, and the interior of ...

... way out was over a wall with a steep drop on the other side. Although I was prepared to wrestle with the dogs, this seemed a better and less risky escape route so, nursing my honor for failure, we clambered down the vertical drop which was the wall.

We found a road which became more and more built up as we proceeded down it until we came out near what appeared to be a newly built park complete with a lake which stretched as far as we could see and ...